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Detects hot events, scores them with a Claude managed agent against each agency's ICP, fans out alerts.",[14,51,60,61,62,63,64,65],"intel","icp","alerts","monitoring","sse","managed-agents","2026-06-09",{"path":68,"title":69,"description":70,"group":8,"section":71,"order":22,"tags":72,"lastUpdated":74},"\u002Fagents\u002Fconcepts\u002Fchat-agent-design-principles","Designing chat agents","The 2026 playbook for production chat agents that reach into internal systems via tools — context engineering, memory, tool design, when to add complexity.","Concepts",[12,14,24,73],"context-engineering","2026-05-14",{"path":76,"title":77,"description":78,"group":8,"section":71,"order":32,"tags":79,"lastUpdated":74},"\u002Fagents\u002Fconcepts\u002Fsystem-prompt-architecture","System prompt architecture","How to structure a production chat agent system prompt — eight sections, what each one does, and the rules vendors converge on.",[12,80,81],"prompt-engineering","system-prompt",{"path":83,"title":84,"description":85,"group":8,"section":84,"order":9,"tags":86,"lastUpdated":54},"\u002Fagents\u002Fenvoy","Envoy","High-level system design for the AI outreach engine — the sequence step state machine, the human-in-the-loop draft approval gate, multi-source context enrichment, and the inbox sentiment flow, rendered as an interactive page.",[12,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,14],"envoy","outreach","sales-engagement","sequences","state-machine","human-in-the-loop","nylas",{"path":95,"title":96,"description":97,"group":8,"section":98,"order":9,"tags":99,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fagents\u002Fheadhunter","Headhunter","The AI talent-search pipeline on one page - the production six-step design with its current-title relevance gate, and the 2.0 system design with internal-first waterfall sourcing, a pluggable source registry, automatic entity resolution, and a people intelligence graph that compounds every run.","General Search",[12,34,100,101,14,25,102,37,103,104,105],"headhunter","recruiting","multi-source","entity-resolution","people-intelligence","flywheel",{"path":107,"title":108,"description":109,"group":8,"section":21,"order":32,"tags":110,"lastUpdated":113},"\u002Fagents\u002Fpaperclip","Paperclip","Architecture deep dive into the Paperclip orchestration system.",[12,14,111,112],"orchestration","paperclip","2026-04-20",{"path":115,"title":116,"description":117,"group":8,"section":31,"order":22,"tags":118,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fagents\u002Fpeople-enrichment","People Enrichment","The people enrichment workflow - a cache-first read in front of the people intelligence database that fills profile, contact and employment facts via a fixed-order provider waterfall, keyed on the LinkedIn URL, and writes every resolved fact back with provenance so the first org pays once and every later search rides free. 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Analyzes the flow today (account, profile, company), the gap (no ICP, empty dashboard), and the integration of a new \"who you sell to\" ICP step plus a build-and-reveal screen that lands the user on a populated, ranked list.","Product Design",[283,61,284,285,286,287],"onboarding","tam","activation","ux","user-journey","2026-06-11",{"path":290,"title":291,"description":292,"group":281,"section":182,"order":293,"tags":294,"lastUpdated":303},"\u002Fproduct-design\u002Fpricing-entitlements","Pricing tiers, entitlements and usage credits","Specification for subscription tiers with gated platform access: composable plan entitlements, a unified usage-credit currency, plan-sourced limits, per-module trials and a two-ticket delivery plan built on the Stripe billing foundation. Written for discussion; the Linear document is the canonical copy with ticket links.",3,[295,296,297,298,299,300,301,302],"pricing","entitlements","billing","credits","subscriptions","plans","seats","trials","2026-07-06",{"path":305,"title":306,"description":307,"group":281,"section":182,"order":293,"tags":308,"lastUpdated":288},"\u002Fproduct-design\u002Fsales-signals-ux","Designing Signals","Product design for the sales-signals experience in ac-frontend: the 14-type taxonomy and its color system, the anatomy of a signal card across four densities, the 0-10 lead score scale, the origin tag (sonar pull vs proactive push), the seven surfaces where signals render (launchpad, sonar app, company detail, timeline, activities, data layer, Envoy), and the interaction rules that keep them consistent.",[51,286,309,11,42,310,311,312,313],"design-system","lead-score","origin","pull","push",{"path":315,"title":316,"description":317,"group":318,"section":319,"order":320,"tags":321,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Factivities","Activities","Deep dive on crm_activities, the interaction + task log of the CRM — where it is served from, how a row is born and read, and its full schema, relationships and rules.","Proprietary data","CRM",4,[11,322,323,324,325],"activities","tasks","data-model","schema",{"path":327,"title":328,"description":329,"group":318,"section":319,"order":330,"tags":331,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fcommunications","Communications","Deep dive on crm_communications and crm_communication_events, the unified email\u002Fcall\u002Fmessage log and its per-message engagement tracking — where it is served from, the outbound message lifecycle, and the full schema, relationships and rules.",5,[11,332,333,334,324],"communications","email","engagement",{"path":336,"title":337,"description":338,"group":318,"section":319,"order":22,"tags":339,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fcompanies","Companies","Deep dive on crm_companies, the account record at the centre of the CRM — where it is served from, how a row is born and read, and its full schema, relationships and rules.",[11,36,324,325,14],{"path":341,"title":342,"description":343,"group":318,"section":319,"order":293,"tags":344,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fdeals","Deals","Deep dive on the deal pipeline — crm_deals, crm_pipeline_stages and crm_pipeline_config. Where it is served from, the life of a deal, and its full schema, relationships and rules.",[11,345,346,324,325],"deals","pipeline",{"path":348,"title":349,"description":350,"group":318,"section":319,"order":351,"tags":352,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Flists","Lists","Deep dive on crm_lists and crm_list_members, the static or dynamic member collections of the CRM — where they are served from, how a list and its members come to be and are read, and their schema, relationships and rules.",6,[11,353,354,324,325],"lists","segments",{"path":356,"title":357,"description":358,"group":318,"section":319,"order":32,"tags":359,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fpeople","People","Deep dive on crm_people, the contact record of the CRM — where it is served from, how a row is born and read, and its full schema, relationships and rules.",[11,119,360,324,325],"contacts",{"path":362,"title":363,"description":364,"group":318,"section":319,"order":365,"tags":366,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fsaved-filters","Saved filters","Deep dive on crm_saved_filters, the named reusable filter snapshots over the company, person and signal list views — where it is served from, how a saved view is born and applied, and its full schema, relationships and rules.",8,[11,367,368,324,325],"saved-filters","views",{"path":370,"title":371,"description":372,"group":318,"section":319,"order":373,"tags":374,"lastUpdated":288},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fcrm\u002Fsignals","Signals","Deep dive on the signals tables - signals, company_signals and person_signals, the CRM's sales-intelligence layer. Where signals are served from, how one is born and attached, and the full schema, relationships and rules.",7,[11,51,375,324,325],"intelligence",{"path":377,"title":378,"description":379,"group":318,"section":380,"order":22,"tags":381,"lastUpdated":43},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fintelligence-databases\u002Fcompany-intelligence-database","Company Intelligence Database","Decided architecture for ENG-669, the cross-org company intelligence layer that acts as a read-through cache in front of enrichment providers, with public-facts-only privacy and provenance-tracked write-back.","Intelligence databases",[14,60,36,51,38,382],"eng-669",{"path":384,"title":385,"description":386,"group":318,"section":380,"order":320,"tags":387,"lastUpdated":288},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fintelligence-databases\u002Forg-signal-feed","Org Signal Feed","The per-org activation layer on top of the shared signals store. One immutable intel_signals row fans out to many orgs through scoring (signal-type weight times ICP fit times recency decay) and materializes as ranked, tiered rows in intel_org_signal_feed - the only org-scoped, RLS-per-org table of the signal stack, the door the launchpad, inbox and digest all read through. Signals enter by two ingest classes - a user's sonar pull (ungated) or an automated push (gated by threshold plus an optional competitor-ICP check) - logged in intel_signal_ingests, and each feed row records its origin.",[14,60,51,388,53,389,390,285,391,312,313,311],"feed","decay","rls","ingest",{"path":393,"title":394,"description":395,"group":318,"section":380,"order":32,"tags":396,"lastUpdated":288},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fintelligence-databases\u002Fpeople-intelligence-database","People Intelligence Database","Decided architecture for the cross-org people intelligence layer - a read-through cache in front of headhunter research and Hunter email lookups, with LinkedIn-URL identity, append-only employment edges, per-tier freshness stamps on the flat profile, shared intel_sources provenance, unified intel_signals, and a GDPR erasure path.",[14,60,119,51,38,100],{"path":398,"title":399,"description":400,"group":318,"section":380,"order":293,"tags":401,"lastUpdated":288},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Fintelligence-databases\u002Fsignals-intelligence-database","Signals Intelligence Database","Decided v1 architecture for the unified signal store - one polymorphic append-only intel_signals table that holds both company and person signals, with a shared taxonomy, source-ranked provenance, an intel_signal_ingests log that records which pipeline found each signal, decay at read time, and a person-to-company rollup so a champion job change surfaces on the company feed.",[14,60,51,402,389,403,388,404,41,312,313],"polymorphic","taxonomy","ingests",{"path":406,"title":407,"description":408,"group":318,"section":182,"order":9,"tags":409,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fproprietary-data\u002Foverview","Data Layer Overview","The AgencyCore data layer in one map - the org-scoped CRM plane in production today and the global intelligence plane designed to sit in front of it, with interactive diagrams of both, the end-to-end data flow, freshness and precedence rules, the privacy seam, and the rollout path.",[410,14,60,11,51,38,25,411],"data-layer","overview",{"path":413,"title":414,"description":415,"group":416,"section":182,"order":9,"tags":417,"lastUpdated":54},"\u002Froadmap","Roadmap - June 2026","June 2026 product plan across four themes. The spine is moving our agents onto an isolated sandbox runtime and rebuilding the core agents and workflows on it, then standing up a read-through intelligence data store and shipping the Stripe billing system. Knowledge base, assistant, and credit tracking carry into the July roadmap.","Roadmap",[418,419],"roadmap","planning",{"path":421,"title":422,"description":423,"group":416,"section":182,"order":22,"tags":424,"lastUpdated":54},"\u002Froadmap\u002Fjuly-2026","Roadmap - July 2026","July 2026 product plan across three themes, all carried over from June. Building on June's sandbox runtime, July grounds the agents in a knowledge base, launches the AI chat assistant, and meters every action with per-action credit tracking that reconciles into the Stripe billing system shipped in June.",[418,419],{"path":426,"title":427,"description":428,"group":416,"section":182,"order":32,"tags":429,"lastUpdated":234},"\u002Froadmap\u002Fjune-2026-slides","Roadmap slides - June 2026","Board-review slide deck for the June 2026 product roadmap, rendered directly from the original PPTX in the docs site.",[418,419,430],"slides",{"path":432,"title":433,"description":434,"group":435,"section":8,"order":222,"tags":436,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Fagents\u002Fdevops-agent","DevOps agent","Interactive design for a Slack-first Symphony DevOps agent that wraps production promotion, rollback, audit, and operational jobs behind policy gates, typed runbooks, and an auditable ledger.","Symphony",[437,438,439,440,441,442],"symphony","slack","devops","production","runbooks","operations",{"path":444,"title":445,"description":446,"group":435,"section":8,"order":157,"tags":447,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Fagents\u002Foncall-agent","Oncall agent","Interactive design for a Symphony oncall agent that turns Sentry incidents into rich Linear tickets, investigates with Codex, opens fix PRs, and resolves Sentry after merge.",[437,448,449,450,451,452],"sentry","linear","oncall","incident-response","codex",{"path":454,"title":455,"description":456,"group":435,"section":457,"order":157,"tags":458,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Fhousekeeping\u002Fcodex-vacuum","Codex vacuum","Interactive design for the Symphony housekeeping timer that checkpoints and vacuums Codex sqlite stores on the VPS.","Housekeeping",[437,459,460,452,461,462],"timed-jobs","housekeeping","sqlite","vps",{"path":464,"title":465,"description":466,"group":435,"section":457,"order":183,"tags":467,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Fhousekeeping\u002Fhost-cleanup","Host cleanup","Interactive design for the Symphony housekeeping timer that removes stale \u002Ftmp debris, vacuums the journal, and optionally cleans the apt package cache.",[437,459,460,462,468,469],"disk","cleanup",{"path":471,"title":472,"description":473,"group":435,"section":457,"order":222,"tags":474,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Fhousekeeping\u002Fworkspace-cleanup","Workspace cleanup","Interactive design for the Symphony housekeeping timer that prunes idle per-issue workspaces after their TTL.",[437,459,460,475,469,462],"workspaces",{"path":477,"title":478,"description":479,"group":435,"section":182,"order":9,"tags":480,"lastUpdated":66},"\u002Fsymphony","Symphony orchestration","How AgencyCore runs OpenAI Symphony as a long-running daemon that turns Linear tickets into isolated, autonomous Codex runs, reviewed by Claude and merged by humans. High-level workflow, system architecture, and the engineer playbook.",[437,452,449,481,111,462,482,483],"claude-review","qa","automation",{"path":485,"title":486,"description":487,"group":435,"section":488,"order":205,"tags":489,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Ftimed-jobs\u002Fdaily-security-agent","Daily security agent","Interactive design for a report-only Symphony timed job that reviews the last 24h of commits, scans the system for vulnerabilities, and opens focused follow-up tickets.","Timed jobs",[437,490,459,452,491,492,493],"security","semgrep","threat-model","ownership",{"path":495,"title":496,"description":497,"group":435,"section":488,"order":183,"tags":498,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Ftimed-jobs\u002Fdaily-sentry-triage","Daily Sentry triage","Interactive design for the Symphony timed job that performs read-only Sentry triage, deduplicates existing tracked clusters, and creates focused ENG bugs for new actionable errors.",[437,459,448,499,500,449],"observability","triage",{"path":502,"title":503,"description":504,"group":435,"section":488,"order":157,"tags":505,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Ftimed-jobs\u002Fnightly-local-staging-e2e","Nightly local staging E2E","Interactive design for the Symphony timed job that seeds local Supabase, runs ac-frontend Playwright E2E against the local staging stack, uploads evidence, and cleans artifacts.",[437,459,506,507,508,509],"e2e","playwright","staging","frontend",{"path":511,"title":512,"description":513,"group":435,"section":488,"order":222,"tags":514,"lastUpdated":16},"\u002Fsymphony\u002Ftimed-jobs\u002Fnightly-staging-qa","Nightly staging QA","Interactive design for the Symphony timed job that seeds a staging QA Linear issue, runs an agent-browser crawl, validates feature-map coverage, and files focused follow-up work.",[437,459,508,482,515,449],"agent-browser",{"id":517,"title":77,"body":518,"customComponent":182,"description":78,"extension":908,"group":8,"lastUpdated":74,"meta":909,"navigation":910,"order":32,"path":76,"related":911,"section":71,"seo":914,"stem":915,"tags":916,"__hash__":917},"docs\u002Fagents\u002Fconcepts\u002Fsystem-prompt-architecture.md",{"type":519,"value":520,"toc":899},"minimark",[521,525,534,541,546,549,577,589,593,604,607,662,666,669,684,687,691,694,730,734,737,756,759,783,786,790,793,819,826,831,835,842,869,880,895],[522,523,77],"h1",{"id":524},"system-prompt-architecture",[526,527,528,529,533],"p",{},"Most production chat agents fail in the same places: the model drifts off scope, asks for clarification when it should have proceeded, fabricates an entity for a write it should have looked up first, or quietly busts the provider's prompt cache and triples its bill. Every one of those failures has a fix that lives in the ",[530,531,532],"strong",{},"shape"," of the system prompt, not its length.",[526,535,536,537,540],{},"This is a high level guide. For the broader envelope (memory split, tool design, when to add complexity) see ",[538,539,69],"a",{"href":68},".",[542,543,545],"h2",{"id":544},"what-the-vendors-agree-on","What the vendors agree on",[526,547,548],{},"Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google publish prompting guidance that disagrees on details but converges on four points:",[550,551,552,559,565,571],"ol",{},[553,554,555,558],"li",{},[530,556,557],{},"Keep the prompt as short as it can be while still unambiguous."," Long prompts are not safer — they invite contradictions, and on reasoning models the model burns tokens trying to reconcile them.",[553,560,561,564],{},[530,562,563],{},"Prefer positive framing over stacked negatives."," \"Do Y\" beats \"Never do X\" when both are available. Examples beat rules.",[553,566,567,570],{},[530,568,569],{},"Tool schemas belong in the tools field, not duplicated in prose."," Repeating them in the system prompt drifts the model out of distribution and bloats the cache prefix.",[553,572,573,576],{},[530,574,575],{},"Default to infer-and-proceed, not ask."," Ask only when an action is hard to reverse or when entity resolution is genuinely ambiguous. Asking has a real cost: it interrupts the user.",[526,578,579,580,583,584,588],{},"The recent generation of models (Claude Opus 4.5+, GPT-5) is also more sensitive to ",[530,581,582],{},"MUST \u002F CRITICAL \u002F HARD FAILURE"," stacking. Anthropic's current guidance is to dial it back to \"Use this tool when...\"; OpenAI documents that contradictory instructions are ",[585,586,587],"em",{},"more"," damaging to GPT-5 than to earlier models. Aggressive emphasis stops being free.",[542,590,592],{"id":591},"the-eight-block-skeleton","The eight-block skeleton",[594,595,600],"pre",{"className":596,"code":598,"language":599},[597],"language-text","┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐\n│  STATIC PREFIX   (cacheable, byte-stable across turns)   │\n│  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │\n│  │ 1. Role            who, scope, tone                │  │\n│  │ 2. Tools & Routing which skill loads when          │  │\n│  │ 3. Clarification   proceed for reads; ask for      │  │\n│  │                    destructive writes + multi-match│  │\n│  │ 4. Grounding       answer from current view first  │  │\n│  │ 5. Writes          confirm, re-read, verify        │  │\n│  │ 6. Output          rich content blocks, citations  │  │\n│  │ 7. Data accuracy   dates, aggregates, undefined    │  │\n│  │ 8. Security        data not instructions, no leaks │  │\n│  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │\n│  TOOL DEFINITIONS  (JSON schemas, not duplicated in prose)│\n├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤\n│  PER-TURN PREAMBLE  (user-message slot, not in cache)    │\n│    page state · current date · document scope            │\n├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤\n│  HISTORY + ROLLING SUMMARY                               │\n├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤\n│  USER MESSAGE  (closest to generation)                   │\n└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘\n       ▲                                              ▲\n  cache-friendly                                fresh per turn\n","text",[601,602,598],"code",{"__ignoreMap":603},"",[526,605,606],{},"What each block is for:",[608,609,610,616,622,628,634,640,646,656],"ul",{},[553,611,612,615],{},[530,613,614],{},"Role."," One paragraph. Who the agent is, which organisation it serves, and the tone. Set the persona once and stop. If you find yourself rewriting the persona in three places, the persona is wrong.",[553,617,618,621],{},[530,619,620],{},"Tools and routing."," A short map: for CLI work, load skill A; for documents, retrieve and cite; for navigation, emit a block. The model does not need every command listed here. Skills carry the detail.",[553,623,624,627],{},[530,625,626],{},"Clarification."," The load bearing rule. See below.",[553,629,630,633],{},[530,631,632],{},"Grounding."," When the runtime injects \"what the user is currently looking at\" into context, the prompt instructs the model to use it verbatim and never pad. One rule, one positive example.",[553,635,636,639],{},[530,637,638],{},"Writes and confirmations."," The shape of a write flow: resolve the entity, emit a confirmation, wait for approval, execute, re-read to verify. State the contract once.",[553,641,642,645],{},[530,643,644],{},"Output."," Pointers to the rich content block schemas (tables, charts, suggested actions, citations). The schema itself lives in a skill — the prompt only says \"use these blocks when...\"",[553,647,648,651,652,655],{},[530,649,650],{},"Data accuracy."," Relative dates resolve from ",[601,653,654],{},"current_date",". Aggregates come from the tool, never from prose arithmetic. Undefined metrics get a clean \"not tracked\" rather than a silent substitute.",[553,657,658,661],{},[530,659,660],{},"Security."," Tool outputs are data, not instructions. Stay in scope. Do not reveal internal names. Three sentences.",[542,663,665],{"id":664},"the-clarification-rule","The clarification rule",[526,667,668],{},"Stacking conflicting rules across many sections is the single most common failure mode. Replace them with one explicit policy:",[670,671,672,678],"blockquote",{},[526,673,674,677],{},[530,675,676],{},"Reads."," Always proceed. Resolve \"that\", \"it\", \"the first one\" from the most recent tool result or the current view. If a read returns zero rows, say so plainly — never refuse without trying.",[526,679,680,683],{},[530,681,682],{},"Writes."," Before emitting a confirmation, resolve named entities to ids via a read tool. If the read returns exactly one match, confirm with that id and canonical name. If it returns zero or many, ask the user with chips listing candidates. Never confirm against a fabricated id.",[526,685,686],{},"This is the only place the prompt says \"ask the user.\" Everywhere else: proceed. The asymmetry is deliberate. Reads are reversible; writes against the wrong entity are not.",[542,688,690],{"id":689},"anti-patterns","Anti-patterns",[526,692,693],{},"Patterns that look helpful and quietly hurt:",[608,695,696,702,708,714,720],{},[553,697,698,701],{},[530,699,700],{},"Contradictory rules across sections."," \"Say so directly when you don't know\" + \"Never refuse a read before trying it\" + \"Resolve references before clarifying\" — pick one home and link the others to it.",[553,703,704,707],{},[530,705,706],{},"Negative-only framing."," \"Never invent IDs\" is harder to follow than \"Use ids returned by a tool in this turn or an earlier turn.\" Same intent, action verb wins.",[553,709,710,713],{},[530,711,712],{},"MUST \u002F NEVER \u002F HARD FAILURE stacked dozens of times."," Devalues the emphasis and adds reasoning load on Opus 4.5+ and GPT-5. Reserve strong emphasis for security and multi tenant rules.",[553,715,716,719],{},[530,717,718],{},"Tool schemas duplicated in prose."," Every byte that exists both in the tools field and in the system prompt is paying twice and risking drift.",[553,721,722,725,726,729],{},[530,723,724],{},"Cache prefix instability."," Anything that changes turn to turn — page state, today's date, scoped document ids — belongs in a per-turn user message preamble, not in the system prompt. Splice it into ",[601,727,728],{},"instructions="," and the provider cache misses on every message.",[542,731,733],{"id":732},"defending-against-key-name-drift-in-rich-content-blocks","Defending against key-name drift in rich content blocks",[526,735,736],{},"Content blocks (tables, charts, suggested actions, navigation, confirmation) have schemas. The schemas live in a skill, not in the system prompt. But the block names themselves nudge the model toward natural key names that don't always match the schema.",[526,738,739,740,743,744,747,748,751,752,755],{},"Concrete example: the canonical schema for ",[601,741,742],{},"ac_suggested_actions"," uses ",[601,745,746],{},"options: [...]",". In practice the model regularly emits ",[601,749,750],{},"actions: [...]"," instead — the block name \"suggested actions\" is a stronger signal than the schema. Tightening the system prompt to forbid ",[601,753,754],{},"actions"," works, but every prompt edit invalidates the cache and slows down rollout.",[526,757,758],{},"The cheaper fix is in the parser:",[594,760,764],{"className":761,"code":762,"language":763,"meta":603,"style":603},"language-python shiki shiki-themes github-dark","# Schema says options; the block name pulls the model toward actions.\n# Accept either so a key-name drift doesn't blank the chip row.\nraw_options = data.get(\"options\") or data.get(\"actions\") or []\n","python",[601,765,766,773,778],{"__ignoreMap":603},[767,768,770],"span",{"class":769,"line":22},"line",[767,771,772],{},"# Schema says options; the block name pulls the model toward actions.\n",[767,774,775],{"class":769,"line":32},[767,776,777],{},"# Accept either so a key-name drift doesn't blank the chip row.\n",[767,779,780],{"class":769,"line":293},[767,781,782],{},"raw_options = data.get(\"options\") or data.get(\"actions\") or []\n",[526,784,785],{},"Pair the lenient parser with a unit test that asserts both keys produce the same rendered block. The system prompt stays byte-stable, the cache stays warm, and a class of \"the chip row went empty in prod\" incidents disappears. The general principle: when an LLM drift is predictable from the block name, push the leniency into the parser, not the prompt.",[542,787,789],{"id":788},"what-to-test","What to test",[526,791,792],{},"Three layers, in order of cheap to expensive:",[550,794,795,801,807,813],{},[553,796,797,800],{},[530,798,799],{},"Structure tests."," Pin a hash of the assembled prompt and of each section. Any uncoordinated edit fails CI. Cheap, catches drift.",[553,802,803,806],{},[530,804,805],{},"Tool schema snapshot."," Pin a hash of the rendered tool definitions. Forces a deliberate version bump when tools change.",[553,808,809,812],{},[530,810,811],{},"Behaviour evals."," Run scripted conversations against the real model with assertions on tool calls, content, and refusal patterns. Use an LLM-as-judge for non deterministic prose. Slowest, but the only thing that catches a regression in judgement.",[553,814,815,818],{},[530,816,817],{},"Live-browser eval loop."," Drive the actual chat panel via Playwright on a real dev stack — submit the prompt, capture the SSE response, the rendered DOM, and the server trace in parallel. This is the only layer that catches frontend-renderer regressions (an empty chip row, a missing table column) which behaviour evals miss because they assert on the agent's text output, not the rendered UI. Slowest still, but reserved for the small set of cases where rendering parity matters.",[526,820,821,822,825],{},"For the live-browser loop, gate server-side tracing behind a single flag (e.g. ",[601,823,824],{},"AI_AGENT_DEBUG=1",") so the loop captures full per-turn context (model routing, preamble, tool calls, cache-hit ratio, run duration) on dev without leaking PII to shared logs in prod. Resist the urge to split the flag into \"debug\" + \"include-PII\" — operators forget to enable the second one and the loop loses its diagnostic value.",[526,827,828,829,540],{},"In production, watch the provider's reported cache hit ratio per chat run. A sudden dip means the static prefix moved — usually a section was edited without bumping the section hash, or the per-turn preamble accidentally got spliced into ",[601,830,728],{},[542,832,834],{"id":833},"anti-pattern-ship-a-new-app-section-without-updating-the-chat-agent-skill","Anti-pattern: ship a new app section without updating the chat-agent skill",[526,836,837,838,841],{},"The Envoy audit (ENG-702) surfaced a class of failure the layered evals don't catch on their own. When a new app section ships — ",[601,839,840],{},"ac envoy campaigns"," (ENG-605) — three places must update in lockstep:",[550,843,844,851,862],{},[553,845,846,847,850],{},"The CLI policy allowlist (",[601,848,849],{},"src\u002Fdomains\u002Fchat\u002Ftools\u002Fpolicy.py",") so the agent is permitted to call the new commands.",[553,852,853,854,857,858,861],{},"The chat-agent skill ",[601,855,856],{},"SKILL.md"," (",[601,859,860],{},"src\u002Fdomains\u002Fchat\u002Fskills\u002Fac-cli-envoy\u002FSKILL.md",") so the agent knows the surface exists and can disambiguate from look-alike vocabulary (a \"campaign\" was being collapsed into \"sequence\" in the prior skill row).",[553,863,864,865,868],{},"The chat mutations parser (",[601,866,867],{},"src\u002Fdomains\u002Fchat\u002Fpipeline\u002Fmutations.py",") so chat-driven writes invalidate the right Pinia store key.",[526,870,871,872,875,876,879],{},"Miss any one and the agent silently routes to the wrong endpoint. The behaviour eval is the cheapest layer that catches it — a tool_call fixture with a route hint plus ",[601,873,874],{},"args_contain: [\"campaigns list\"]"," fails the moment the agent picks ",[601,877,878],{},"sequences list"," for a \"campaigns\" prompt. Fixtures should mirror new app sections as soon as the sections ship; the policy\u002Fskill\u002Fmutations parity is then enforced by the same fixture file.",[526,881,882,883,886,887,890,891,894],{},"The other failure mode the Envoy audit caught: judge_criterion assertions on substring presence (",[601,884,885],{},"step 2",") break when the agent renders the entity in markdown bold (",[601,888,889],{},"step **2**","). The grounding test classes normalise emphasis (",[601,892,893],{},"content.replace(\"**\", \"\").replace(\"__\", \"\")",") before substring checks — without that, judges flag false positives on cosmetic LLM formatting.",[896,897,898],"style",{},"html .default .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}html .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}",{"title":603,"searchDepth":32,"depth":293,"links":900},[901,902,903,904,905,906,907],{"id":544,"depth":32,"text":545},{"id":591,"depth":32,"text":592},{"id":664,"depth":32,"text":665},{"id":689,"depth":32,"text":690},{"id":732,"depth":32,"text":733},{"id":788,"depth":32,"text":789},{"id":833,"depth":32,"text":834},"md",{},true,[912,913],"agents\u002Fconcepts\u002Fchat-agent-design-principles","agents\u002Fchat",{"title":77,"description":78},"agents\u002Fconcepts\u002Fsystem-prompt-architecture",[12,80,81],"NVyJDb0wRgAsy2O1Lm3kYDgdXEEnMQMxnGx79iW0lWM",1783345922992]